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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.Personally, my goals are to (1) make the playoffs (seems pretty much done), (2) make the playoffs healthy, and (3) make the playoffs peaking at the right time (seems like the team is beginning to hit another gear). Anything else in the regular season is secondary (pun partly intended).
But it's still pretty cool. If the Pats do run the table the rest of this season, I wonder if any team has ever had 3 consecutive seasons going 8-0 the second half of the season? Given that BB always talks about the real season starting after Thanksgiving, that would be an amazing indication of how adept BB is at getting the team focused and tuned up.
That said; I thought they showed a table on broadcast last night about teams that went undefeated in last 8 gms and there were only about 10-12 and 2-4 of them were Pats teams. (not sure if that was over modern era, last decade, or since 16 game season) So I think it is likely they are already alone with back-backs, and safe to say it would be a record to do it back-back-back.
With last night's win, the Patriots are now 19-0 regular season in their last 2nd half season games, dating back to 2010.
8-0 2010
8-0 2011
3-0 2012
*****Now, the goal is to be 3-0 or 4-0 in the POST-season!
This (undefeated in half a season) is a rather obscure (not obvious in record books or tracked clearly) stat; so (to me) pretty relevant . . .